Sentences with phrase «by private sector companies»

High - profile data breaches among a few well - known banking and retail organizations during 2006 reinforce the very serious nature of privacy breaches and the need to better protect personal information held by private sector companies.

An outside scholarship is any scholarship not awarded by the government or the school, such as a scholarship provided by a private sector company, philanthropist or foundation.

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«This is both a response to everything you are seeing in the world, this DOD regulation, but also an effort by not just the DOD, but by the administration to drive companies in the private sector generally towards greater cybersecurity and more disclosure with the government,» Lee said.

Another way defence companies are diversifying their customer bases is by selling more to the private sector.

Prominent Perth company director Tracey Horton is among a group of business leaders appointed to a new federal Treasury advisory council designed to replicate the discipline provided by a private sector governance board.

Europe's technology sector has made «a lot of progress» in the last five years, says Clif Marriott of the Technology, Media and Telecom group in Goldman Sachs» Investment Banking Division, evidenced by the increasing number of unicorns — private companies valued at over one billion dollars — in the European tech scene, the homecoming of the continent's top talent and the high number of successful IPOs of European companies.

In addition to its responsibility for accounting standards, the Commission is responsible for the approval or disapproval of auditing rules put forward by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a private - sector regulator established by the Sarbanes - Oxley Act to oversee the auditing profession.

That's because the insurance is provided by a private - sector company, and not by the government.

Today's race to the stars involves a host of specialized private companies, supported not only by government interest and initiatives, but also (and in large part) by private sector investments.

To summarize, this unbiased report was produced by an organization, who has as its board member, the proponent of the research who also happens to be the CEO of the Crown Corporation which is proposing the radical changes, furthermore, this CEO was also the president and CEO of a company that has a private sector mail service that may benefit from these changes, and he is paid close to 520K per year by the Crown / governor in council who appointed him, of an organization that is fasely reporting losses.

PMI policies are arranged by the mortgage lender and provided by private - sector insurance companies.

The Caixin China Manufacturing PMI, released by Markit Economics, is based on data compiled from monthly replies to questionnaires sent to purchasing executives in over 400 private manufacturing sector companies.

But rather than supporting the idea that all Canadians should have comfortable retirements — say, by reforming CPP, and protecting private sector employees against company bankruptcy — the authors see public sector pensions as just more «premium.»

Led by OrbiMed Advisors, an investment management firm focused on the healthcare sector, Caduceus Private Investment funds invest primarily in US mid and late stage private life science companies and medical technoPrivate Investment funds invest primarily in US mid and late stage private life science companies and medical technoprivate life science companies and medical technologies.

You sure you aren't going to vote for someone who's never ran a private sector company, came from a broken home and raised by a Muslim in a foreign country who won't release his school transcripts?

«We have been impressed by the good work of the Family Online Safety Institute in promoting effective private - sector responses to the need to keep kids safe and smart online, and it's an honor to join with other leading companies and organizations in supporting FOSI.»

«We have been impressed by the commitment of FOSI in promoting effective private - sector responses to educate communities about Internet dangers, and it's an honor to join with other leading companies and organizations in supporting FOSI.»

The PSMP aims to accelerate private sector workplace investments in malaria prevention as it will support employers by facilitating cost - effective Insecticide Treated Net (ITN) distribution plans while providing workplace malaria education sessions for company staff and community members.

Schroeder, 57, spent 25 years in the private sector, working for two food companies before moving into electoral politics in 2001 as part of a political organization lead by Brian Higgins.

Euphemistically called a «secure college» the proposed facility is, in reality, an enormous new prison built to save costs by warehousing children and contracting out its running to private sector companies such as Serco and G4S.

Since 2007, he's been in the private sector, as CEO of Connect Support Services, an IT company which, incidentally, was founded by Adam Afriyie.

His keen business acumen, honed by years in the private sector and creating one of the most successful financial companies in our nation's history, has kept us ahead of other cities (and even states like California) and helped New York avoid mass layoffs, middle class flight and, most important, civic despair.

The FSB is calling on the Government to ensure that all public agencies follow the lead of central Government and pay all invoices to small firms within 10 days; that all contractors that the public sector uses pay their sub-contractors within the same time; and that all private sector companies used by the public sector sign up to the Prompt Payment Code.

And I will take a hard line, too, against any attempts to replicate the mistake of skewing the market against public sector providers, effectively bribing private companies by offering them more money to do exactly the same job as you.

The company is going to bring in over $ 2billion in the Nigerian railway sector, in which they are going to revive the Lagos - Kano narrow gauge and revive the Port Harcourt - Maiduguri narrow gauge by private investment.

Fifty bids by companies and partnerships who demonstrated how they would create jobs were successful, opening up over # 2.5 billion of private sector investment to help the economic recovery.

Werritty, the group's UK director, was funded by a raft of powerful businessmen including Michael Hintze, one of the Tories biggest financial backers whose hedge fund, CQS, has investments in companies that have contracts with the Ministry of Defence; Poju Zabludowicz, chairman of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, who chairs a US munitions company; and the Good Governance Group, a private security firm set up by a South African businessman, Andries Pienaar, who also has an investment firm, C5 Capital, focused on the defence sector.

Geico officials along with Gov. Andrew Cuomo confirmed Tuesday plans by the national company to grow its local workforce while making a combined public - and private - sector investment of slightly more than $ 15 million.

But Chris Williamson, chief economist at financial information company Markit, expressed pessimism on the country's employment prospects, saying: «The unemployment rate is likely to continue to rise in coming months as job losses in the public sector are accompanied by lower payroll numbers in private sector services and construction.

They were introduced by the first - term Labour government and involve the public sector entering into long - term contracts with private sector companies.

Adonis added: «I think he is going to have to go because, as he is forced to defend a massive bailout to the private sector, the question will be asked by the public accounts committee and the National Audit Office — why didn't you adopt the alternative course which was to set up state companies to avoid the need for a bailout?

The decision by the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport Company Limited (BOST) to compete with the private sector in the downstream petroleum products distribution sector has resulted in huge losses for the state - owned cCompany Limited (BOST) to compete with the private sector in the downstream petroleum products distribution sector has resulted in huge losses for the state - owned companycompany.

Unless of course, this «impressive achievement» is completely cancelled out by the number of jobs lost from closures of manufacturing companies and other challenges to the private sector.

Gig.U is holding a request for information (RFI) from September to November to solicit ideas from the local service providers for building out new networks, which would ultimately be funded by Gig.U members as well as any non-profits and private - sector companies interested in the project.

«By opening The City's dark fibre infrastructure to the private and public sector, non-profit companies, and academia, we help enable the development of projects like quantum encryption and create opportunities for further research, innovation and economic growth in Calgary,» said Tyler Andruschak, project manager with Innovation and Collaboration at The City of Calgary.

While about 70 per cent of the manufacturing for any given ISRO mission is done by India's private sector, it is unlikely that a single commercial firm will step in to the space race, as several companies have done in the US.

However, the 22 percent estimate is drawn from a 1993 paper by Allen, Clark, and McDermed that compares private - sector workers «covered by a company retirement plan» to those who were not covered by any plan, so there are no implications for CB or DC.

By utilizing private companies like SpaceX, NASA can access innovators who would likely never choose to work in the public sector.

Research shows that investments in human capital improve organizational performance — including team effectiveness, employee retention, and innovation — in both the private and public sectors.1 In other words, companies that attract and develop strong employees by prioritizing recruiting, investing in professional growth opportunities, and building positive workplace cultures tend to have greater efficiency and better outcomes.2

PMI policies are arranged by the mortgage lender and provided by private - sector insurance companies.

The fund seeks high, current income, with a secondary goal of capital appreciation, by investing under normal market conditions, at least 80 % of its net assets in income - producing securities of sovereign or sovereign - related entities and private sector companies in emerging market countries.

They are private - sector companies that make money by selling consumer data, mostly to the financial sector.

HDFC Life is the third largest private insurance company in the country which has 16.5 % of total premium collected by the private sector insurance companies in the financial year 2017.

Inflows into private - sector 401 (k) s have outpaced those into corporate pensions every year since 1987, according to 2014 figures, the latest available from Department of Labor data tabulated by the Investment Company Institute.

The relationships between the corporate sector, and in particular with drug companies, and private medical practitioners, hospitals, and medical schools, are being called to question by the Institute of Medicine in the US (1).

The company said it was also benefiting as private and public sector companies cut costs by trading down to mid-market and budget hotels.

It cuts most ties with the private sector, and by the same token, it nationalizes these companies.

Thanks to widespread stewardship efforts by the private sector, it's easier than ever to learn about companies who are taking real steps to clean up their acts.

In 2010, several private sector companies made bold commitments to remove deforestation from major commodity supply chains by 2020.

It is meant to be a practical tool for use by a broad range of stakeholders, including those in governmental agencies, water utilities, community water boards, non-governmental organizations, and private sector companies.